"Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question……" — Erwin Chargaff
"Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'"
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15 Quotes by Erwin Chargaff
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You can stop splitting the atom; you can stop visiting the moon; you can stop using aerosols; you may even…
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Molecular biology is essentially the practice of biochemistry without a license.
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One of the most insidious and nefarious properties of scientific models is their tendency to take over, and sometimes supplant,…
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He [said of one or other eminent colleagues] is a very busy man, and half of what he publishes is…
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Life is the continuing intervention of the inexplicable.
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Scientific fashions last longer than women's fashions but not as long as men's
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There are no such men today. We have created a mechanism that makes it practically impossible for a real genius…
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Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming…
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If you can modify a cell, it's only a short step to modifying a mouse, and if you can modify…
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The results serve to disprove the tetranucleotide hypothesis. It is, however, noteworthy-whether this is more than accidental, cannot yet be…
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There is no question in my mind that we live in one of the truly bestial centuries in human history.…
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If at one time or another I have brushed a few colleagues the wrong way, I must apologize: I had…
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